THE DELICACY BLOOD

Chapter 2

"I'm Darlene by name, what's yours?"

"Mari!" He said in excitement

"Omari is the name" He said in a more comportable manner and Dar nodded.

Few minutes later, the receptionist got a call and called all those waiting for the interview as soon as she dropped the call.

"You all can go in. It's the first room by your left on the first floor. Finger crossed!" She said with a smile

"Are you intelligent?" Dar whispered in Mari's ear as they walked to the directed destination

"Pardon?"

"Are you good with stuffs like this? I might want to seat with you"

"This is going to be computer based so how do you want me to help you?"

"Just joking. I know my way around this" She said and fastened her pace, swaying her waist as she walked.

Though Mari rolled his eyes in frustration, he still could not help but find her attractive as he kept staring at her.

They got to the conference room and they all walked in.

The conference room was more bigger that the normal sized conference room and it has a platform on which the five judges for the interview were seated and a long curved table and chair for the interviewers.

"Please, have a seat, everyone" A woman who has long blonde and dressed in suit said.

All the interviewers took their seat gently with a mini laptop on their tables.

The door opened and a young and beautiful looking girl walked in with a buffet in her hands which she rolled in after shutting the door. She served the interviewers, one after the other, a cup of tea. She grabbed two cups of tea and was about to place one beside Mari when she missed her steps and the cups of tea went crashing on Mari's body.

"Oh! My goodness!" Mari exclaimed as the tea burnt down to his skin.

"I'm so sorry" The girl quickly apologized and brought out a handkerchief to clean Mari's body.

"Who allowed this grumpy looking girl in here?" Another woman with brown short hair yelled out.

"She is recently employed but this is the first time she would be serving in the conference" a man that seem to be the youngest of the judges whispered to the woman.

"I want her to be punished for that"

"Dear interviewer, I'm so sorry for the mess my employee made. The restroom is just down the corridor, go clean up and come back so we can get started" The woman with brown short hair who is Mrs. Gabrielle by name said.

"Thanks, ma'am" Mari said and retreated from the room while the girl kept serving the tea.

Mari came back to the conference room moments later and they all set to begin the interview.

"Everyone! If you look at the screen of your laptop right now, you would see it booting up so listen to the instructions carefully" The youngest of the judges, Kelvin said as he took a pause do the interviewers to observe what he had said.

"You have only thirty questions popping up and you're to answer ten only but the first two questions are compulsory and mind you, you all have different questions regardless of the fact that the first two questions of you all are compulsory. Those questions were set according to your qualifications on your C.V and the post you're applying for so do well to defend your qualification. And once you're done and submitted, you can raise your hand up to excuse yourself from the room. You'll stay at the reception while your interview would be reviewed and you'll get your response before leaving. If anyone is found wanted by the end of this interview, whether the person got a job here or not, the person would be automatically disqualified for the position. Is that well taken?" He asked and the people nodded.

"You can now start" The lady with blonde hair, Miss Ellaine said.

In seconds, the conference room was filled with clanking sounds of the keyboards while the judges were concentrated on their laptops that had been connected to cameras around the conference room to monitor the interviewers.

About twenty minutes later, the interviewers were all done and they retreated from the room - they were fifteen in number.

Mari was fiddling with his phone when a girl approached him, "I'm sorry about what happened in there" She said and Mari looked up at the person - it was the girl that served the tea.

"Oh! That's fine, people makes mistakes so it's okay"

"I'm Dianne by name. I hope you get in so we can see more often"

"Sure! I hope so too. I'm Omari"

"Nice name. I'll take my leave now" She said and left the reception.

The interviewers were first called in individually but after the seventh person, they were called in in pairs of two and the last pair happens to be Mari and Dar and they went to the conference room together.

"Congratulations, Miss Darlene and Omari. You have passed the interview and would be working as partners. You are expected to resume as soon as you get your appointment letter via your emails" Mrs. Gabrielle said

"Thanks" They chorused and retreated from the conference room.

"You should learn to appreciate beautiful things rather than stealing glancing" Dar said as they stepped out of the conference room.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I've caught you stealing glances at me" She said in a sweet voice

"You must be mistaken, Miss Dar. Even ugly things get glanced at because you would be like "Oh my goodness! How did someone ever become so ugly?" He said, exaggerating the expression on his face and Dar went red with fury.

"What do you mean by that? That I'm ugly?"

"Whatever you translate it to be" He scoffed and walked away

Omari opened the door of his house and walked in but the house seems to be empty.

"Mom? Hello? Mom, where are you?" He called out as he walked up the stairs, to her room.